Abstract In the September 2025 issue, Wirtschaftsdienst published an editorial entitled “Best practices for rail – instead of Germany going its own way” by Vera Huwe, Niklas Illenseer and Philippa Sigl-Glöckner. Alexander Eisenkopf and Andreas Knorr express a different opinion in a reply. Vera Huwe and Niklas Illenseer then explain their point of view in a response.
Eisenkopf et al. (Sun,) studied this question.